School: Kilskeer (C.) (roll number 1563)
- Location:
- Kilskeer, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhithcheallaigh
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- The games which we play are tig, hide and go seek, Frog in the well and Blind man's Buff.
Tig
1. The rhyme we say when we are going to play tig is, Ittle Attle black bottle, Ittle Attle out, a penny over the water, twopence over the sea, threepence over the railway and out goes she. You keep saying that until there is only one left. That child has the tig.
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- Bridie Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Johnsbrook, Co. Meath
- 2. When we are going to play "hide and go seek" we say this rhyme - "Hide and go seek, go round the rick, Mary Jane, cock, stone, blind." The child that blind is said to is the seeker. We all go and hide in any place we can find. The seeker counts ten and when she has it counted she comes in search of us. We have(continues on next page)
